Magellen / DLR / Spacemouse Classic Testing (Currently not functioning)

[RegJug]

I have a Logitech Magellan / space control / Lizenz DLR branded spacemouse device. It doesn't currently work with your software

If I can help at all getting your project functioning with the Magellan I would love to help.

My testing so far:

I tested the demos supplied with the 3dconnexion 3dxware 2.8.2 drivers on windows 8.1 attached to a PCI serial card. They worked as expected. I also tested with 2 different USB to serial adapters with it. Neither supplied power well enough to make the Magellan function.

My device responds with this firmware string when given the vQ\r command (using putty)

MAGELLAN Version 5.49 by LOGITECH INC. 10/22/96

SBW testing:

When SBW sends 4d 53 53 0d ( MSS\r ) SBW reports 'number of bytes written' as 4 and when I touch the device buttons bytes read gets incremented. However no indicators for buttons or movement are picked up.

My guesses why it doesn't work:

I vaguely remember seeing an old forum post saying that at least the length of the packet changed between the Magellan and Spaceball 5000...

I had a brief and unskilled look through the Spacenav-plus source code and couldn't spot some obvious differences between sections of the source code referencing those as separate devices. This doesn't surprise me as the scope of my programming skill isn't great.

I'll probably get round to installing Visual Studio soon, then I might try poking around hoping I'll get something to work.

My hope for future additions to your project:

I'd quite like to see this interfacing with vJoy. I've seen AHK interface with VJoy before. Maybe it'll happen yet.

Thank you for reading